Philadelphi Corridor: what Wikipedia removed
The Philadelphi Corridor is the Israeli-controlled buffer strip along the Gaza-Egypt border, used to interdict weapons smuggling into Gaza. Through 2005 the opening explained that ‘Operation Rainbow was undertaken, in part, to destroy the smuggling tunnels and damage the terrorist infrastructure in the area.’ Today’s opening describes only the corridor’s geography and the 2005 disengagement agreement, with no mention of smuggling tunnels or terrorist infrastructure, though the word survives four times in the body. A reader today does not learn from the opening that the corridor’s purpose included fighting terrorist infrastructure supplied through smuggling tunnels.
The word “terror” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2005. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 4. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.
The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot
Section titled “The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot”| word | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| terror | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.
What was taken out
Section titled “What was taken out”- An earlier version of the opening’s first sentence, defining the corridor as an IDF code-named buffer zone, was reworded before being dropped.
- A sentence stating the corridor’s purpose was to prevent movement of weapons or people is gone from the opening.
- The detail that Palestinians, in cooperation with some Egyptians, built smuggling tunnels under the border is gone from the opening.
- The description of Operation Rainbow destroying smuggling tunnels and terrorist infrastructure is gone from the opening.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2005 (revision 16495764):
The Philadephi Route (corridor / buffer zone) is an IDF code name for the strip of land along the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip . Under the Oslo Accords , it remains under direct Israeli military control. One purpose of the Philadephi Route is to prevent the movement of illegal materials (including weapons, ammunition, illegal drugs) from Egypt into the Gaza Strip. Palestinians in cooperation with some Egyptians have build smuggling tunnels under the Philadephi Route to move these into the Gaza Strip. Most of the tunnels are based in both sides of Rafah . Since the outbreak of the al-Aqsa Intifada , the Israeli Defence Forces began operating against the tunnels. IDF vehicles, soldi…
2025 (revision 1292015288):
Strip of land on the Egypt–Gaza border “Philadelphi” redirects here; not to be confused with Philadelphia . Place The Philadelphi Corridor , also called Philadelphi Route , is the Israeli code name for a narrow strip of land, some 100 metres wide and 14 km (8.7 miles) long, situated along the entirety of the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt . Following Israel’s unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip in 2005, the Philadelphi Accord with Egypt was concluded, which authorized Egypt to deploy 750 border guards along the route to patrol the border on Egypt’s side. The Palestinian side of the border was controlled by the Palestinian Authority until the 2007 takeover by Hamas . The joi…
Related
Section titled “Related”- The drift report: what changed across all 61,944 watched articles
- The case file for this article, with every snapshot and every marked removal
- Who made the cuts: removals grouped by the account that made them
- The live article on Wikipedia
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